Not everyone gets a snow day in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids residents face heavy snow with citywide closures of schools and businesses. Postal workers like Steve Gelner and Wayne Volkla kept delivering mail despite whiteout conditions. Frontline workers including drivers and garbage crews stayed busy as drivers navigated snow blocked driveways and slippery streets.
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Cedar Rapids
Steve Gelner
United States Postal Service
Weing Road
Gelner
Anatomy of a near perfect midwest blizzard storm
A National Weather Service meteorologist describes the blizzard as a near perfect heavy snow and wind event. Deep Arctic air met mild southern warmth with a strong upper atmosphere energy off the West Coast creating a large winter storm. Forecasters faced a dry slot complicating the system as the phasing of air masses reached critical alignment.
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Midwest
NWS
Andy Ervin
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Ervin
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Rockies
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Ersaid
Snowfall records and historic 1951 Cedar Rapids storm
The Gazette notes a 10 plus inch current storm but says Cedar Rapids previously recorded 19.9 inches in March 1951 from the 11th to 14th. State climatologist Harry Hillaker cites 24-inch 24 hour records in 1912 Northboro and 1918 Lenox, with southwest Iowa nearest Gulf Stream moisture.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Harry Hillaker
Hillaker
Northboro
Page County
Lenox
Taylor County
Arctic cold set to linger in Iowa as snow lingers
The low kept heavier snows away from Cedar Rapids area Tuesday night and early Wednesday. Temperatures dropped Wednesday as the system moved east bringing more arctic air. Wind chills near zero with a modest warmth expected to lift temps into the 20s to near 30 by the weekend.
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Cedar” Rapids
Iowa
Ervin
Weather sparing injuries count in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City
Hospitals report few weather related injuries as of late Wednesday. At St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids three chest pains from shoveling snow and two fall injuries. Mercy Medical Center notes minor fall injuries and a chest pain case from shoveling. University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City treated four weather related injuries including two falls on ice and a snowblower incident. Mercy Iowa City saw no ER surge.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
St. Luke’s Hospital
Sarah Corizzo
Mercy Medical Center
Karen Vander Sanden
University of Iowa
Mercy Iowa City
Tim Ahlers
Statewide storm shuts down three Iowa regent universities
A rare statewide winter storm forced closures of the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday. ISU spokesman John McCarroll said nearly the entire state was affected, with decisions balancing safety, transportation, and road conditions. UNI limited staff to essential personnel while UI offices stayed open but allowed optional attendance.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Iowa State University
University of Northern Iowa
ISU
John McCarroll
Tom Moore
McCarroll
UNI
Moore
Park and School Sledding Patches Across Iowa City Areas
Readable fragments note sledding activity at Jones Park Bowman Woods Elementary Roosevelt Middle Marion Thomas Park and nearby parks in Iowa City with similar winter recreation spots including Happy Hollow Mount Vernon Press Hill Central City and Pinicon Ridge Park for local families.
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Bowman Woods
Roosevelt Middle School
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